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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

I see horrible looking clothing on a toy that should not have clothing. And I do not understand your MEGO and NECA comment. MEGO toys suck!!

I see well done cloth that looks really good (so far) on a figure that at the sale it's at shouldn't probably look that good. You want plastic Mattel and NECA are there for you...though they are also doing retro toys and as for that, the "Mego" part of this is more in reference to the build characteristics, not the quality and styling. Basic body forms (sort of since I can't imagine them reusing the DKR Batman body on say Judge Dredd) with plastic molded hands, boots and heads on a 7 to 8 inch scale. If you don't understand that I don't know what you're doing on a toy forum. It's the reason NECA called their Retro line a "Retro" like to begin with as it's a direct reference to toys put out by Mego back in the 70's.

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Originally Posted by merqabah

i dont see the mego style people are refering to, i see this as being more a mini-hot toys rather than mego, anyways awesome figure and i would get the blue one with the rifle (since i assume they are variants and not intercheangeble accesories.

See above. It's not that this is LITERALLY styled to look like a toy put out by Mego in the 70's like how Funko is doing their own "Kenner" styled 3.75 inch 80's figures for example, this is "Mego" styled because it's built with a similar construction and scale in mind. Mego did this to be less expensive than the 12 inch figures being released at the time. While Mezco and NECA are obviously detailing their versions a lot more, it's a similar situation to stuff like Hot Toys in that these are smaller, less expensive yet "quality" alternatives to the current 12 inch figures HT is putting out.

Me, I'm curious. I'll be interested to see just how close the production figure looks to the prototype...I may not actually BUY them mind you as I'm not really interested in buying another scale where cloth replaces sculpting just so we can double the price. Sure, $30 is a far cry from $200 or $300 for a Hot Toys piece but when I can get fully detailed sculpting for $15, why buy the $30 just to get cloth? I only ever bought NECA's Evil Dead 2 offerings and THAT is only because it's Evil Dead.